bug#69646: [PATCH] Have insert 'submit-emacs-patch' maintainers into X-Debbugs-Cc

[Philip Kaludercic]

Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Tags: patch
>>
>>
>> Here's a suggestion, to have the submit-emacs-patch command
>> automatically ping maintainers, in case they are not following the bug
>> tracker.  Basically it goes through all the files and extracts the
>> information from the Maintainer: header.
>>
>> One non-technical issue here is that the maintainer information might
>> not be up to date.  I've run a quick scan to see who is mentioned how
>> frequently.  It might be necessary to clean up this list or to check who
>> is still around:
>
> Hi Philip,
>
> IIUC with this patch I'd be in Cc of all bugs? If that's the case I'm
> not personally in favor of this, I score mails on bug-gnu-emacs also
> based on me being in Cc or not.

Why should that be?  I have tested the new command out with bug#69647,
and you weren't added automatically.  In fact, a quick grep tells me you
aren't listed as the maintainer in any file, so you wouldn't be affected
by this.

> I think the bug is that maintainers should be subscribed to
> bug-gnu-emacs (otherwise I'm not sure how they can actually maintain).

The issue is that for someone like me, who maintains a few little things
around Emacs, following all bugs and all discussions would be too much.

> Isn't a long list of people in Cc technically just another mailing list?

It shouldn't be a long list, just the people responsible for the
specific files being modified.  My idea is to have something comparable
to Linux's "get_maintainer.pl"[0], and a bit more streamlined (assuming
people even use M-x submit-emacs-patch).

[0] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/get_maintainer.pl

> My 2cents, thanks!
>
>   Andrea

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